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Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume is a combined edition of Kenneth Bailey‘s intensive studies of the parables in the Gospel of Luke, Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes. Bailey begins by surveying the development of allegorical, historical-eschatological, aesthetic, and existential methods of interpretation. Bailey combines an examination of the poetic structures of the parables with information about the...

nothing.”45 The steward does not reflect on how he can get his job back. All his energy is focused toward the future. At the same time, the steward discovers at this point something else about his master that is supremely significant. He is fired but not jailed. The Mishna makes quite clear that an agent was expected to pay for any loss of goods for which he was responsible. The steward can be tried and jailed. Rather, he is not even scolded. The master, under the circumstances, has been unusually
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